demetria ‘demi’ latrice gibbson - 21. chicago, il …
the southside has never been kind to a girl like demi g. from the day she was born, she’s been nothing but another statistic. being born to a crackhead isn’t an uncommon fate for kids growing up where she’s from. only the strongest survive they say, and boy is demi a strong one. as you can imagine, she’s had to learn to become independent from very early on. her mother was often too high or strung out to deal with her and that often meant going hungry and being neglected far too much for her liking. then there was her mother’s obsession with finding happiness in a man. it made demi sick thinking about all the men her mother has seduced and brought home just to drain them of their finances and blowing it on her next high. demi reaped none of the benefits her mother received and she often ended up with the short end of the stick in life.
she’s got a shit ton of half siblings, her father is a mystery. her ma doesn’t even remember his name unfortunately, and demi believes if he wanted to be found he’d have come to her by now so she doesn’t think about him much and likes to tell people she’s an orphan.
now, in present time, demi hasn’t spoken to her mother in almost two years. two years ago demi spiraled out of control with party drugs like molly and ecstasy and was forced into a rehab program where she lived for a good six months. now that she’s out, she’s been clean for a year and a half, she works as a hooter’s waitress and also part time at a nail salon. she’s just trying to stay clean and go back to school. she’s figuring herself out for the first time in her life and she just wants better, to be happy.
